An Ethics Question

[MrCoffee]

I finally got my copy of Ron Suskind's "The One-Percent Doctrine" from the public library after being on a waiting list FOREVER. I'm halfway through it (the holidays and a new baby at home slowed me down). I can't renew it because there's a huge waiting list behind me.

Do I finish it, or return it on the due date (tomorrow) so the next guy in line can have a go at it?

[fortyfeetunder]

1. I say stay up tonight and finish it.

Make a pot of joe or whatever caffeinated brew that suits you and finish it....and if the baby cries, you can read parts of it to lull the little one back to sleep!

[JVS]

2. photocopy the remainder at work, return it promptly

[Zavulon]

3. So make the office pay for it? :)))))

Interesting answer to an ethics question :)

[JVS]

6. Hey, if it weren't for all the crap they make him do at work, he'd have finished the book long ago

[Zavulon]

9. ROFLMAO

I can't even tell if you're being serious or not, but that post was absolutely hilarious :)

[JVS]

25. I'm half joking

:-)

[Zavulon]

4. Return it on time.

It isn't the next person's fault that you couldn't find the time. Keeping books late is why you were on a waiting list for so long, so don't be one of those jerks that made you wait so long in the first place.

[MrCoffee]

7. way to make me take the high road...

i need a map, i've never taken it before. :rofl:

[Zavulon]

8. Sorry, boss, but it is what I'd do in your shoes.

You asked ;)

[Rabrrrrrr]

5. I gotta go with take it back on time.

[buddhamama]

10. take it back on time

loser. :) seriously.

[MrCoffee]

11. but...but...

it's rilly rilly good!


did you have a Murry Christmas? :hug:

[buddhamama]

13. it is a good read

precisely why there is a waiting list. try your hardest to finish and return the book on time.

hey, for all you know there's a repub on the list who can be converted.

i had a good Christmas MrCoffee,thanks for asking. :hug:
and you, how was your Christmas? did Santa bring the little ones and the Mrs. everything they wanted and more?

[InvisibleTouch]

12. Finish it.

Consider it your donation to the library, which provides you with such excellent free education and entertainment.

At least, that's what I always console myself with when I forget to take something back on time, and have to pay fines. It's a donation in support of the library. :)

[MrCoffee]

14. so you're not concerned with those in line behind me?

i'm less worried about the fees than i am about being "that guy" who holds up the line, even if it's a completely anonymous line.

the things i choose to worry about...

[InvisibleTouch]

17. They've waited this long...

...so another day or three won't kill them. :)

I'm on a library waiting list too. Honestly, I won't know the difference if the person right ahead of me keeps the DVD an extra few days. Have got plenty to keep me busy. And even if I did care, I've got no way of finding out who the culprit was, so you're perfectly safe from retaliation. ;)

[BOSSHOG]

18. Take it back on time damnit

Little stuff like this is what turns people into republicans. What's next? Insider trading? Take it back and feel all good about yourself. Now that you have been sufficiently chastised, let me reward you:

http://www.pjscoffee.com/customer/index.php

There is a store right up the road and its heaven out in the sticks.

[MrCoffee]

21. insider trading is wrong?

but, how else can i afford my gated community and the lilly-white private schools my kids are entitled to?

[LynneSin]

15. Hell I'll mail you my copy as long as you promise to return it

:D

[northernsoul]

16. From one heathen pigdog to another

Don't make the guy behind you wait unnecessarily.

[underpants]

19. pssst yeah you.... I know a guy who can get you a copy (looks around)

for cheap. No binding though and some of the pages are miscopied



Actually I am on page 80 or so. It is very good. I am reading that because "Fiasco" was on the waiting list, all 7 copies.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

20. Well, you could just read it ...

instead of slacking off posting polls on DU.

Just sayin'

:)

[MrCoffee]

22. i know who voted for #4....hehehe

[LSK]

23. how is that book? does it deal more with the runup to war?

I'm reading Fiasco right now and it does some work on the runup, but the entire book is not dedicated to that subject alone.

[MrCoffee]

24. i'm about halfway through, and so far...

it's been more about the conflict bewteen CIA and FBI over how to approach the "war on terror". I'm just now getting into Iraq. It's a fascinating read. Highly recommended.

[rug]

26. The rules have changed since 9/11.